THE Chinese Embassy in Manila lashed out at the Philippines’s top envoy to Washington D.C. and urged him to stop being the mouthpiece of the US.
The Chinese Embassy was reacting to the remarks made by Ambassador Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez last week on his worry that the West Philippine Sea might trigger a full-blown war.
Romualdez had earlier said that China’s aggression on Philippine Navy, Coast Guard and fisherfolks is “very real.” He is worried that the tension would escalate and a “major accident” would trigger either Washington D.C. or Manila to invoke the Mutual Defense Treaty. It said bringing in “outside forces” and forming mini-alliances “will not help resolve” the territorial dispute. Such moves, it added, “only complicate the regional situation, undermine regional peace and stability, and backfire on its own security.”
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